The Great Sacrifice:

THE GREAT SACRIFICE
He is the "Initiator", called the "GREAT SACRIFICE". For sitting
at the threshold of LIGHT, he looks into it from within the circle of
Darkness, which he will not cross; nor will he quit his post till the
last day of this life-cycle. Why does the solitary Watcher remain at
his self-chosen post? Why does he sit by the fountain of
primeval
Wisdom, of which he drinks no longer, as he had naught to learn
which
he does not know - aye, neither on this Earth, nor in its heaven?
Because the lonely, sore-footed pilgrims on their way back to
their
home are never sure to the last moment of not losing their way in
this limitless desert of illusion and matter called Earth-Life.
Because he would fain show the way to that region of freedom
and
light, from which he is a voluntary exile himself, to every prisoner
who has succeeded in liberating himself for the sake of
mankind,
though but a few Elect may profit by the GREAT SACRIFICE.
It is under the direct, silent guidance of this MAHA - (great) -
GURU that all the other less divine Teachers and instructors of
mankind became, from the first awakening of human
consciousness, the
guides of early Humanity. It is through these "Sons of God" that
infant humanity got its first notions of all the arts and sciences,
as well as of spiritual knowledge; and it is they who have laid the
first foundation-stone of those ancient civilizations that puzzle so
sorely our modern generation of students and scholars.
H. P. BLAVATSKY
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